Dark grey with cave-like grotto forms in the background. Hints of pink and mauve bleed through the stone texture. Cooler and moodier than Cool Slate.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, moody cave-grey palette with pink and mauve seeping through textured stone
Cool grey with swirling marks and ghostly repeated faces emerging from the background. Unsettling and distinctive. The figure stands in a crowd of shadows.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, eerie repeated figures emerge from shadowy grey backgrounds with expressive gestural marks
Cool green-grey with rounded boulder-like forms in the background. Similar to Aged Plaster but cooler and less weighty. The figure feels embedded in the stone surface.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, soft mineral tones, figure merging into rounded boulder-like forms
Pure monochrome grey with large geometric faceted planes filling the background. The figure is folded into the same angular surface rather than modelled in the round. Precise and cool with no colour anywhere in the image.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, monochrome cubist facets, figure and ground merged in cool grey
Bold mixed impasto strokes in grey pink mauve and ochre fill the background with painterly energy. The figure rides a richly worked surface of broken colour. Lively and immediate with a full warm-cool palette.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, painted with broken colour and lively warm-cool contrasts
Warm pink and mauve with large rounded boulder forms filling the background. The figure is naturalistically rendered and pops with sharp presence against the soft stone surround. Painterly and warm with a grotto-like depth to the background.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, naturalistic figure rendered with sharp presence against painterly pink and mauve boulders
Cool grey crosshatch and gestural marks fill the background with organic forms emerging from the surface. The figure is sketched rather than rendered with loose confident line. Immediate and alive with a life-drawing energy.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, rendered in spontaneous life-drawing lines and grey hatching
Cool blue-grey palette with chunky broken brushwork throughout. Background generates irregular boulder or cloud-like forms in blue grey and muted brown. Figure merges softly with the cool ground. Loose and painterly with a raw textural quality.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, rendered in raw textural strokes with muted blue-grey and brown tones
Pale ivory and cream ground with loose scrolling organic forms in terracotta and rust. Background generates rounded decorative shapes — ornamental rather than architectural. Figure is warm and confident against the near-white surround. Distinctive and quietly decorative.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, soft cream background with rounded decorative shapes in earthy rust tones, ornamental and warm
Cool silver and blue with dramatic angular mountain-like forms filling the background — jagged peaks or shattered rock faces in dark gestural marks. Figure is warm and painterly against the powerful cool surround. Alpine and commanding. One of the more dramatically structured backgrounds in this range.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, dramatic jagged mountain forms in cool gestural strokes framing a warmly painted subject
Luminous white cloud forms fill the background with dark charcoal tendril or vine-like marks threading through them. Cool blue-grey at the base. Figure painted in warm flesh tones against the pale open surround. Looser and more organic than Pale Damask — botanical rather than decorative.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, soft cloudlike ground with charcoal vine tracery and cool blue-grey base
Deep cobalt and violet-blue ground with large rounded organic forms in cream warm taupe and pale gold massed behind the figure like oversized cloud shapes. Figure painted in warm flesh tones with confident impasto marks. Rich saturated and sculptural.
Sophisticated bottomless nude at the ocean, in a black gown, bold sculptural oil paint, saturated blue-violet ground with warm flesh tones